Adjustable regulator for picture-frames.



No'. 733,809. V PATENTBD JULY 14, 1903. F. 0. BROWN.&: W. E. CHBNERY.ADJUSTABLE REGULATOR FOR PICTURE FRAMES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED OUT. 9. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

W/ TNE SSE 8 No. 733,809. Patented July 14, IQOQ.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK 0. BROWN AND WILLIAM E. CHENERY, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSA CHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE REGULATOR FOR PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,809, dated July 14,1903.

Application filed October 9, 1902. Serial No. 126,469. (No m'odelil ToaZZ whom it may concern: hanger 8 and through the eye 7. The frame Beitknown that we, FRANK 0. BROWN and is thus supported upon the hanger 8.In WILLIAM E. CHENERY, citizens of the United order to raise or lowerone of the hangers States, and residents of Framingham, in therelatively to the wall, the picturewire is 5 county of Middlesex andState of Massachuloosened and drawn a short distance through setts, haveinvented a new and Improved Adthe openings 10, thereby causing thehanger justable Regulator for Picture- Frames, of 8 to occupy a positionhigher or lower, as which the following is a full, clear, and exdesired.The frame may be readily disconact description. nected by loosening thewire 4, or, if do to Our inventionlrelates to an adjustable regsired,the hook 3 may be lifted from the ulator for picture-frames and the1ike-that molding and left connected with the frame. is to say, tomechanism for adjusting and The lower or free end of thewire 4 isthreaded maintaining the level of frames used for the downward throughthe upper ear 9, the eye display of pictures and for analogous pur- '7,and the lower ear 9 and is then carried up- 15 poses. ward, beingdisposed centrally in the curved We" will describe an adjustableregulator edges of the upper and lower ears 9, as indifor picture-framesembodying our invention cated in Fig. 2, and then threaded downward andthen point out the novel features in the through the openings 10 and eye7, so as to appended claims. leave its lower end depend-ing below. The20 Reference is to be had to the accompanying frictional contacts of theseveralabrupt turns drawings, forming a part of this specification, ofthe Wire serve to support the weight of the in which similar charactersof reference indiframe 6. The flexible member 4 so engages cafecorresponding parts in both figures. the ears 9 10 as to be heldcentrally in posi- Figure 1 is a side elevation showing our intion bythe curved edges thereof, as shown in 25 vention as applied to apicture-frame, and Fig. 2, the portion of the flexible member in- Fig. 2is a perspective view showing our determediate of the ears being therebyheld at vice removed from the suspending hook. an accessible point. Thisarrangement also Upon the walll is mounteda so-called picsecuresuniformity in the tension exerted by ture-molding 2 in the usual manner,and a the ears upon the flexible member and due 3o hook 3 of the shapeshown is provided for the to the resilience of the ears. purpose ofdetachably engaging this molding. It will be noted that our device issimple, A longitudinal member 4, composed, prefercheap, and easilyhandled and that it may be ably, of picture-Wire, is provided at itsupreadily sold as an article of manufacture. per end with a loop or eye5, whereby said Having thus described our invention, we 35 memberissupported. A frame 6, which may claim as new and desire to secure byLetters i contain apicture or analogous article, is pro- Patentvidedwith screw-eyes 7, as indicated in the 1. As an article of manufacture,an adjustdrawings. able regulator for display-frames, compris- A hanger8 is provided with integral proing a hook to engage a molding,alongitudi- 4o jections 9, each having an aperture 10. This nal memberconnected with said hook and hanger is mounted upon the longitudinaldepending therefrom, the lower end of said member 4, as indicated inFig. 2, the longilongitudinal member being normally free, a tudinalmember being threaded through the hanger provided with ears for engagingsaid apertures 10. Each screw-eye 7 engages a longitudinal member, saidears being pro- 5 hanger 8 and secures the same rigidly upon vided withapertures through which said lonthe frame 6. l gitudinal member may bethreaded, and Our device is used as follows: The hanger means forsecuring said hanger to a frame. 8 being placed in position, preferablyone 2. As an article of manufacture, an adj ustupon each side of theframe and held seable regulator for picture-frames, comprising 50 curelyby the screw-eyes 7, the picture-Wire a longitudinal flexible member,means for 4 is threaded through the apertures 10 in the suspending thesame from a wall, the lower metal to a frame, said ears having aperturesdisposed in alinement with each other and 15 being provided with curvededges also disposed in alinement With each other, said apertures andsaid curved edges being for the purpose of engaging a flexible memberfree to sustain the weight of said frame.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK G. BROWVN. WILLIAM E. CHENERY. Witnesses:

MARY LE B. STOCKWELL, FRANK M. STOCKWELL.

